5 D.C. jazz picks for May 2024
The D.C. scene has a fiery lineup of shows coming up in May to match the recent flash of...
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Bob Boilen, creator of NPR’s ‘Tiny Desk,’ named program director of WOWD-FM, Takoma’s community radio station
Bob Boilen, the veteran NPR music host and creator of the widely popular “Tiny Desk Concert” series, has come...
5 D.C. jazz picks for April 2024
Happy Jazz Appreciation Month! A key moment on the nation’s capital’s jazz calendar, JAM gives D.C. the chance to...
The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis are ‘chasing energy,’ not genre, on powerful new LP
For the members of D.C.-based pyrotechnic rock trio the Messthetics and luminary tenor saxophonist James Brandon Lewis, the question...
Samara Joy to headline 20th anniversary DC Jazz Festival this September
The DC Jazz Festival has announced headliners and other highlights for this coming September’s 20th-anniversary celebrations. Samara Joy, the 24-year-old...
5 D.C. jazz picks for March 2024
Whenever March rolls around, I cannot help but think back to this time four years ago, when the COVID-19...
The Mid-Atlantic Jazz Festival goes big for 15th anniversary
Arts organizations continue to feel squeezed by the limitations on post-pandemic arts funding, but Paul Carr still wants the...
5 live jazz picks for February in D.C.
Welcome to April, and Happy Black History Month! With it arrive some time-honored DMV traditions, like the Mid-Atlantic Jazz...
5 live jazz picks for January in D.C.
As the calendar turns, I want to wish all the readers of this column continued health in the coming...
5 live jazz picks for December in D.C.
It’s the most wonderful time of the year – and by that, I mean that we in the D.C....